sjr725
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All week, cold and snowing and calves dropping all over the place - today and tomorrow into the weekend weather is supposed to warm into 30's and at last count we have 2 holdout cows out of 370, this morning they looked huge and uncomfortable - can't hold out much longer - Anyhow - I'm glad to be done! Only had one calf looks like he'll lose the end of his tail to the cold everyone else is hale and hearty. This is defintely a bull calf year on our place out of 368 calves got 219 bull calves! anybody else notice the gender swing from year to year? I'm not complaining, wasn't planning on keeping any heifers this year - kept a bunch back last year.
My experimental Piedmontese X calves - no calving trouble and they are not noticably bigger than anyone else. Most of the babies this year averaged 85-95 range and these were right in there 88-90, plenty good I'd say. I'll get some photos posted as soon as I can and you guys can say what you think? We don't usually AI so this was just an experiment on a few older herfx cows - just to see what all the hoopla is about.
My experimental Piedmontese X calves - no calving trouble and they are not noticably bigger than anyone else. Most of the babies this year averaged 85-95 range and these were right in there 88-90, plenty good I'd say. I'll get some photos posted as soon as I can and you guys can say what you think? We don't usually AI so this was just an experiment on a few older herfx cows - just to see what all the hoopla is about.